After several weeks of public hearing, the Senate Blue ribbon committee established the direct complicity of corrupt officers of the Bureau of Immigration in human trafficking and 'VIP escort services' of international fugitives in and out of the country. At the same time, it plunged the Bureau into the public's lowest esteem. And the employees, now laughingstock of the 'yearbook meme', have become highly demoralized. These all happened under the watch of long time BI employee now commissioner Norman Garcera Tansingco who worked as chief of staff of former commissioner Marcelino Libanan from 2007 to 2017.

https://opinion.inquirer.net/162029/worsening-corruption-and-morale-at-the-bureau-of-immigration

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